cyprus aspersions on the e.u. bailout deal that could have cut into ordinary depositors' savings forcing the government to look to moscow for a lifeline against bankruptcy. barack obama arrives in israel for the first time as u.s. president but may struggle to close the growing gap between the country's middle east policies. u.s. military officials admit that one ton of the hunger strike has almost doubled and the detainees are being forced to beg for human rights groups demanding more openness from the detention camp. an iraqi terrorist group with. claims responsibility for bombings that killed dozens in baghdad for the uncertainty in that country ten years on from the u.s. led invasion.

and seven pm here in the russian capital you're watching the r t a live with me to mom would say it's good to have your company with us. scenes of relief and celebration greeted the cypress of parliamentary junction of attacks on bank deposits the one of levy leading to to an e.u. bailout deal would have seen millions of a con told us to use up to tenth of the savings and had been condemned by officials and the public alike but the country now finds itself on the brink of bankruptcy and having rejected the e.u. strains it may have to turn to russia for cisterns of course you are g.'s you go to peace can offer more on the crisis. year go to where does cyprus stand now what are the options available to them. well right now cyprus is in a very difficult position because it's rejected the proposal by the european union and the troika to tax private bank accounts and now frankly there are not many

places for cyprus to turn for help and actually one of these places is russia and the site that finance minister has been in the russian capital the entire day he's met with his russian counterpart and with the first deputy prime minister there is speculation that cyprus is asking russia for a loan so far the finance minister said that he was satisfied with the negotiations but no official offer has been made so far although he himself said he's not leaving moscow until an agreement is reached all of this is happening. while anger and anger a miracle being furious over cyprus talking to moscow about this all together since earlier she strongly advised the country not to even discuss the issue with anybody else but brussels or the troika and actually we know that the president personally told what he will put in about his country's problems decision to reject the european union's proposal and we also already know that cyprus

already always of russia iran two and a half billion euros for the previous alone back from two thousand and eleven when it was that some was a little bit over ten percent of the country g.d.p. and helped it stay afloat so the biggest question for now is the cyprus is it going for broke and is it going to ask russia for a complete bailout package although the latest developments all are that it's one of the you financial aides of the russian president said that theoretically if cyprus became a member of the region economic community then it would tap into the reserve fund that organization tax but while right now cyprus is not a member of the community and another development coming from cyprus itself is that the country has prepared a new plan to tie. it's a social funds like. fund and others to collect around five billion euros which it would have collected if it didn't reduce this tax for all the private bank

accounts in the country now for more on this i'm joined by the. renaissance capital. thank you very much for joining me let's start with this new the new developments how likely is it. good didn't use this reserve fund that the region community economic community has but i guess there are two portal points to be made the first one you already mention for that to happen separate seems like they have to become a member of this community but i think the more interesting point is that this was an r.v. new that was already used with belarus remember a couple of years ago bill reese was also facing a big giveaway ssion very very severe economic problem problems so a lot of the money the bill it was received was actually from that community but we do not have bills as a member of that community so i guess in that case it was easy so i guess the bottom line is that a similar has been used in the past but obviously there's something illegal details

that need to happen for full force produce to pan out maybe it's a possibility since i and what about as the news coming from cyprus to top the top type into social funds how effective do you think factored well identity day when we do know that there is about seventeen billion dollars the overall package that is needed we do not have the european union to try to have offered about ten billion dollars so not a seven billion euro zone of a seven billion euro zone needed i think that given the fact that the proposal the regional proposal was rejected but as you get quite a lot of this is that they're looking they're looking for options one of the options is to to get a loan from out from russia identity from russia or the avenue that we just described or to find some additional internal sources of income and you know if they were to tie up the pension funds for for for that this actually would not be the first case that we have seen in the past this has happened in argentina it

happened in the couple of years ago during the two thousand and eight in two thousand and nine crisis exactly what argentina did a nationalized their pensions use them. something similar is being proposed in kazakhstan right now although with the adult with a different purpose in mind so these kind of methods nationalizing the pension savings to make unto for a suit an issue has been used in the past by other countries so why not this is also a possibility thank you very very much for your time this is pretty much all the time we have for now this was the chief regardless of illness or scare but all. of . you got a piece going off archie correspondent thank you there with even chuckle of economies that renaissance capital. banks are throughout cyprus remains shuttered to prevent a panicking investors russian she was joined their savings correspondent sylvia reports from the capital on the situation facing people. as far as what goes on the street at the moment it's rather calm the initial panic really happened over the

weekend when that announcement was made from brussels that they will be toxic people were lining up. in front of a.t.m.'s trying to get their money out and yesterday i was talking to some locals who were trying to get some money out of the a.t.m. some had run out of cash and this morning when i actually tried to buy a bottle of water they had given me a hand full of change and apologizing that they have run out of five euros and ten euro notes because the banks were closed the u.k. government as we know had already sent about one million euros in cash to their troops who were here in cyprus just to keep the cash go away now on the a bigger level of economic a level if the banks do remain closed this will pose a problem as the economy does hit a substantially on the banking sector and there's already been doubt on whether the banks will open at all but we also heard from reaction from the e.u. i did not find this minister said well the bloc deeply regret that the both of the bailout offer still sounds provided that the initial requirement is still that all

this leave that is law that has not passed the parliament and they're really not happy about that will the impact of what is happening in cyprus certainly sending ripples across europe first of all to the citizens who are now with quite afraid of their say because of the fact that the seeds of doubt sold the credibility has been damaged but the damage has been done even if the poll did not go through so people are saying if it can happen to cyprus that that red line to be crossed dipping into people's savings it could happen to other euro zone countries that might be needing bailouts in the future. the man who engineered britain's austerity program is now looking to rebrand himself the u.k.'s chancellor the executor unveils a new budget which envisions cutting corporate taxes even more while introducing a host of new duties including a levy on alcohol. u.s. officials have admitted that the number of guantanamo bay detainees on hunger strike has almost doubled to the last week they've also said that at least eight

inmates are being force fed but dismissed lawyers claims of prisoner abuse russia has voiced concern over the hunger strike while the un human rights body is taking a cautious stance on the issue let's see a chef he joins me live with the details let's see so how is it the international community reacting to the hunger strike reports. well this forty three day long hunger strike of guantanamo inmates has been causing concerns and condemnation worldwide from the human rights organizations and activists russia has now joined in in this criticism earlier we spoke to. the advisor of the russian foreign minister on the human rights issues and he was also very critical of the events at guantanamo prison. many international human rights organizations have acknowledged to guantanamo bay prisoners a living in a rights vacuum interrogation methods and convenient conditions of violating major

human rights standards of course undermined the us as an international rights watchdog the prison is operational despite its inmates winning almost half of their appeals which were later overruled by a higher court we have repeatedly drawn the attention of our american colleagues the very existence of this detention camp massive human rights defender reputation because the us likes to see itself double standards are obvious and we hope that eventually the guantanamo problem will be solved once and for all. well artie also asked for comments from the united nations high commissioner for human rights the organizations there are going to reply to us by saying that they were looking into the alleged mistreatment and the hunger strike itself but so far they cannot confirm it and there are certain fears that the u.n. watchdog simply has no access to the guantanamo inmates the ones on hunger strike

and the only information we have managed to go on a so far came from the lawyers of the inmates and they are they are the ones who have been ringing alarm bells and informing the public and r.t. in particular of everything happening behind bars in the prison and how it is that the u.s. dealing with the strike. well there have been no comments coming from u.s. authorities from officials from defense officials which is causing more reasons for condemnation and concern among the human rights activists as i've said most of the information comes from lawyers thanks to them we know that some of the inmates on hunger strike have already been losing consciousness and coughing blood and there are certain fears that in two days on the forty fifth day of the hunger strike they might start having problems with eyesight and even more serious health problems because their condition is deteriorating the only comment we've received from the u.s. officials from the guantanamo officials in particular was that the number of inmates

going on hunger strike has doubled over the last ten days and now amounts to twenty four people but that's been the rest of the information has been concealed and this is certainly causing concerns especially given the fact that the u.s. has been a strong advocate of human rights worldwide but when it comes to a legit violations of human rights on its own territory by its own people the officials are keeping one everyone in the dark on the situation course we are following all the developments in this bizarre story and we'll be getting more information from the lawyers which will be of course informing of us as we get it no doubt we will be following this story unfolding as it goes i thank you the. riches a twenty thirteen budget has kept true to the spirit of austerity jeans across the board but also including a reduction in corporate taxes and feel that the architect of britain's austerity

program judge all supposing it includes measures to support those who is hard hit by the cuts details now from marty's a surfer chancellor was forced to admit that economically we are worse off and yet he said that we're going to be staying on track with our economic plan there's no money around and yet we've seen a lot of tax cuts announced now there's a whole raft of measures this is always going to be a budget very taken more as a whole rather than on these individual measures but we can talk to you as we said a lot of tax cuts were in there some good news to the fugitive i've cancelled a penny off the pint they've stopped the big easy escalator that stopping the big tax is something that's being campaigned for very hard and it is a big but for any of the positive news that within that budget announcement there was that crease still missing ingredient and that's and that's what it really comes down to here we see over the years growth has grated continued to stagnate and

that's really stopped to reproduce the economy and it seems today again for all the announcements once again that is lacking the budget announcing clarion sided with the latest unemployment figures they've got are living costs have increased as we were listening to the chancellor deliver that twenty thirteen budget i was outside with some of the protesters from some trade unions and his announcements were met so loud from the people gathered there they really haven't found a message this government the resonates with british. on the way he wants to come from barack obama's first visit to israel that's right after this break. well. for you it's technology innovation all the least of bellemont from

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welcome back you're watching our t.v. barack obama has arrived in israel on a as far as to ev of his it to the contras u.s. president at home obama has been repeatedly criticized by a pro israel lobby is a full distancing himself from television and there's a little chong's all the ice flowing between the two governments any time soon as policia reports. when former american president george bush visited israel his trip was dubbed skies pope benedict the sixteenth was cloaked white road now it's a bomb as ten. we've called the visit then shakable alliance it is a sign of the extraordinary relations between israel and the united states so extraordinary that the prime minister's office invited the public to choose one of these designs as the trips official emblem but relations between the two leaders are strained and many believe the positive p.r.

is nothing more than cave a spin there are policy differences on iran on the palestinian issue on the i think through the wards the rise of islamic forces in countries like egypt what you see from jerusalem nearby is not what you see from washington on it at a distance. all from the palestinian street for that matter. a bomber came just to beautify the ugly face that bush left the american government works the same whether the president is a bomber or bush the only difference is that one president smiles while the other does not. this is likely to be the scene for the next three days while a bomb is in town anger frustration and raised in the streets of palestine also full of posters protesting the president's visit to many of them his face has been blacked out. critics warn that if obama doesn't confronted from yahoo on settlements and sixty seven borders the visit could disintegrate into another

diplomatic failure and some say when you will of violence in the middle east we don't see ourselves leaving our communities we have returned to places where we have the jewish people have always wished to live there and will live there with their encouragement of the support of the israeli government when it comes to run here to a bomb and netanyahu are at loggerheads a bomber is against an israeli military strike despite relations between the u.s. and iran being themselves quite strained. franking iran. in spite of american explicit objections would certainly. hamper israel's relations with the united states might. even break them all together so for all its hype a bomb is visit for many is less of a compliment and more of an attempt by washington to reaffirm its military alliance in pursuit of its economic interests the interests of the united states its not its

in the resources of the middle east and not in its people and who ever think that it is the united states has changed that is it will prove differently proof that comes at a price literally the three day trip cost millions of dollars a high price for a visit with so little promise for us to be our team television. program got more on the back story to america's relations with israel and palestine on our t.v. dot com where you'll also find reaction to president obama's visit. and al qaeda linked group named to the islamic state of iraq as says it was behind a series of attacks in baghdad on choose day they killed sixty five people in mostly shiite areas of the city it was of the deadliest violence to hit iraq of this year and came on the tenth anniversary of the u.s. led invasion of the country and despite the conclusion of the so-called freedom and democracy mission stability is still no way in sight you see catherine of reports

from iraq. almost everyone that we've met here in iraq is deeply scarred and traumatized by war in one way or another whether was lost as under the saddam era or the massive violence and bloodshed that's been unleashed by the u.s. war and subsequent occupation not to mention the sectarian and ethnic lines that that war has opened blood shed is unfortunately the new norm for most of the parts of iraq here where we're standing right now is actually the semi autonomous region of iraqi kurdistan is probably the only area in the wrong that has seen life improved since the war in large part due to profits from the oil that's been found in this region but less than an hour away in the city of kirkuk where we went a completely different picture checkpoint after checkpoint blast wall surrounding the city it was quite dangerous for us. and most of the residents complained of potentials of security attacks almost at any moment so this is something that's

really been reflected across the country and it's quite symbolic of course that on the anniversary of the ten year invasion iraq close that painful chapter much the same way that it began with bombs across baghdad but as for whether the people feel better off or not it really depends on fortunately on their experience their. ethnic affiliations their religion and what they've suffered during the past ten years. the situation in the country is better than before we do have a problem there is violence there are lots of explosions everything is ok except the bombing it's not. the way things are today suffering. groups of fracturing this democracy. we would feel free to go out and return safely. but there's no guarantee that i'll come home so as you heard there the one thing that does seem to unite iraqis today is fear fear of when the next explosion or attack may come. right film on the consequences of the u.s.

occupation of iraq let's join killing flawless who's a columnist at and t. war dot com kelly they're all some iraqis are say they actually better off now than a ten years ago is this some cause for optimism well i think it is as your reporter had been saying is that it depends on who you are in iraq what your experience was in iraq during the war whether you profited from the massive influx of aid and graft into the country a lot of it that had been wasted or lost i mean americans spend sixty billion dollars in iraq and eight billion of that has been lost outright it went somewhere so there have been people who have profited from that aid of what the waste fraud and abuse and i'm sure they're living in a much better position right now than the majority of iraqis to be fair i've seen

some reports recently of young people who have expressed some optimism about their country and i think that's great and i think they have reason to believe that you know the revolutions across the middle east and beyond will somehow for him to inspire younger generation in iraq to make him better. but there is just so much. left behind by the u.s. occupation that has not left ordinary iraqis particularly sunni's and christians in a very good spot right now. the operation is officially over the troops out of iraq but civilians phase of the constant threat of a cig terry and then terror is violence as should have the troops have stayed until things calm down. well i think there's a good argument to be made and many of my colleagues have made it throughout the last decade that the invasion and subsequent occupation of iraq by a u.s.

and foreign forces actually created the sectarian crisis that we have we are seeing to this day so no i don't think that u.s. troops remaining in that country would have prevented further sectarian attacks or terrorist attacks in that country i think. a prolonged occupation would just fuel that and it may be worse it may have been worse if the united states had come to a another agreement with the current central government there and kept massive amounts of u.s. troops occupying that country and so with this deep divisions between the political factions what's in store for the country's political future. well i you know i've been talking with some human rights activists in the country who have just returned from some travels in iraq involved shia and sunni areas and what i'm getting is is that the sectarian divide is so deep right now and it reaches all all corners of

the political life there in iraq i think until the government of nouri al maliki can come to some sort of reconciliation with the sunni people there i don't think that they are going to have a fair or democratic say in the political future of iraq i think that we are only seeing the ice the tip of the iceberg in terms of the protests there the complaints about politically motivated detentions and jailings and torture there of sunni men. the arrest of women. think that this is a problem. war dot com column is a thank you for your insight in the situation the in iraq. in syria the main opposition coalition is calling for an internationally led investigation into whether chemical weapons were used in an attack near the

northern city of aleppo the rebels and the government have blamed each other for these sold twenty five people died including sixteen government troops journalists in damascus. has the details. that fact occurred and the area called which is in the notify people in an area that was under the control of the government it contained one of the military station it's called the police center the police training center and this police training center has been under the attack from the position for the last three weeks or more and they were very to control it hard because of the difficulty of the hard fighting from the governor they could not control it and now after that attack government claimed that position who fired a mess solide. in the morning with chemical disguises and this chemical guys is made into the killing of several people on the one of the several people including some of the doctors were trying to. to heal these people and. close

by hospitals the government to claim that the opposition was was responsible for it and very and the opposition said at the same time that the government is responsible for the exchange of claims between two of their condition between the two parties. abraham witnesses a cleric in the toilet away of the chemical weapons away report against. a doctor who is responsible in the hospital and belonged to the church i. assured me that he himself try to treat. people who were injured because of the chemical rockets that came over canada and he was surprised of what have he seen he told me this is the first time after being for six years doctors in that was put to see such

cases people were suffering because they could not breathe and he assured me that more than twenty five people were marked killed or martyred because of. this gas and more one hundred fifty people are injured and eleven of them are in very cryptic situation. that's it for me plus all is up next. mission to teach me.

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